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Expecting in sentence

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And as I walked towards the picture, I was expecting detail that wasn't there.
And we went into parenting expecting our lives to look like this.
We really felt like what we went in expecting had nothing to do with what we were actually experiencing, and so we decided we really wanted to give it to parents straight.
That statement from Erica's mother: "We didn't have 15 dollars bus fare to come to you," made me realize that it just wasn't going to work, me expecting people to come to me.
At this rate, we should all be expecting to do jobs we've never done before for the rest of our careers.
But we cannot accomplish all these goals by wishful thinking with our eyes closed or by armchair speculation or by expecting salvation from empty sky.
And I was freaked out in the first place because I had heard that there were actually no disabled people using wheelchairs who were teachers in New York, so each step along the way I was expecting something bad.
And I don't think he was expecting me to have such detailed records of what I did.
I didn't know what to expect, but I wasn't expecting that.
And he was actually afraid to meet the young children who read his books for fear that they were expecting him this kind of jolly Santa Claus-like figure and would be disappointed with his more reserved persona.
I wasn't expecting it at seven, I don't know why, but I wasn't.
And I had gone to cover this contest a few years back as a science journalist, expecting, I guess, that this was going to be like the Superbowl of savants.
And the reason that they're expecting a lot is because they have a new-found hope for the future.
They're just victims of a long-time autocracy, expecting a paternal state to solve all their problems.
So I went ahead, collected wall tissue, prepared it so it was erect, sectioned it, put it on slides and then stuck it under the microscope to have a look, fully expecting to see crossed helices of collagen of some variety.
If you're expecting the people who built this to protect you from the coming robopocalypse — (Laughter) — uh, you may want to have a backup plan.
There's about 35 million people globally living with some kind of dementia, and by 2030 they're expecting that to double to 70 million.
In the past, I've been a race car owner, a crew chief and a driving coach, although maybe not at the level that you're currently expecting.
They're doing it because they are expecting things to happen.
But I had three days of life support, and everybody was expecting, due to just the massive amount of what they had had to do that I wasn't going to make it, so it was three days of everybody was either waiting for me to die or poop, and — (Laughter) — when I finally pooped, then that somehow, surgically speaking, that's like you crossed some good line, and, um — (Laughter) — on that day, the surgeon came in and whipped the sheet off of me.
It takes opening your arms, both, wide, and expecting very little love in return, but demanding accountability, and bringing the accountability to the table as well.
I'm expecting the release of a chapter book called "Platypus Police Squad: The Frog Who Croaked."
They are expecting to create little, tiny black holes.
He got his paper back expecting a near-perfect score, and couldn't believe it when he looked across the room at me and held up a zero.
EM: Actually, what we're expecting is for people to stop for about 20 to 30 minutes, not for an hour.
He'd been expecting me.
And this probably is not what you're expecting.
You're probably expecting me to come up here and talk about fusion, because that's what I've done most of my life.
People are always asking me where I come from, and they're expecting me to say India, and they're absolutely right insofar as 100 percent of my blood and ancestry does come from India.
Or are we expecting them to go from a coffeehouse to a coliseum?
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